In the early nineteenth century, a black market of slave trading explodes. Raised a free woman of color, Scholastique Bigonesse inherits a large supply of rum, but her identity papers go missing and she’s kidnapped by a man wanting her fortune. Mistaken for a slave, her adventures carry her to a deep understanding of the times, while she seeks retribution.

They call it Black Mind. Using this covert technology, Reno has written his own consciousness over that of Albrecht Roon, one of Earth’s greatest enemies.
He’s living in a labyrinth of paranoia, surrounded by bodyguards and treacherous rivals. And then he discovers that Black Mind is not a complete success--- Roon still lives inside him, and Roon is mad.